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- Packed with highly accomplished debuts from younger directors, and full of brilliant ideas, the best movies of 2023 were compelled by art’s old chestnut: humans struggling to understand their place in the world.
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Jan 11, 2024 · Now that the sun has finally set on 2023, it’s time to look back over last year’s movie landscape to reflect on the films that have stayed with us the most and, for a few hours at a time, reminded us what cinema is capable of at its best.
Dec 21, 2023 · I set some rules for picking the best of these films in 2023. Entries had to be released in fewer than 1,000 domestic theaters during the calendar year, not counting festival premieres.
- Killers of the Flower Moon" Martin Scorsese’s monumental adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction bestseller contains a bounty of viewing pleasures, but in the main it is something like an anti-entertainment.
- Past Lives" There is a knowing slipperiness to writer-director Celine Song’s debut “Past Lives.” Though Nora (Greta Lee) and her family leave South Korea, moving away from her childhood best friend Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), this film is not about immigration.
- Oppenheimer" Christopher Nolan’s epic follows its titular character, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), through the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
- May December" It's fascinating to watch people try to put Todd Haynes' latest masterpiece in a box. Is it camp? Is it a drama? A comedy? There's almost a meta level to this conversation because it's a film about an actress who thinks she can put people in a box too.
- Tom Gliatto
- 'Oppenheimer' Director Christopher Nolan’s three-hour masterpiece is about how a life-annihilating force — the atomic bomb — was unleashed on a world already (always) buffeted by other, older forces, the ones that have made and broken societies: political, ideological, psychological.
- 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Martin Scorsese directed the most sinister western ever to come out of Hollywood: an epic account, well over 3 hours long, about the systematic murder of members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma — it was a scheme by White men to gain control of the oil rights that had made the Osage colossally wealthy.
- 'The Color Purple' This latest adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about long-suffering Celie (Fantasia Barrino) is the best, with a much surer tone than Steven Spielberg’s 1995 film and a cast of confident, ingratiating talents, including Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks and Halle Bailey.
- 'Maestro' The tempo is furioso in director-star Bradley Cooper’s wildly stylish but endearing film about the chaotic union of composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein and wife Felicia (Carey Mulligan).
Dec 1, 2023 · From 'Past Lives' to 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' see TIME's picks for the best movies of the year.
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